The following guide is intended to provide an overview of resources available in the library and online on the subject of the Federal grand jury. For further assistance, please take advantage of the reference services available to you in the library. Stop by the Reference Desk in person or online at Ask a Librarian.
Reference books are shelved by Library of Congress call number in the reference stacks near the reference desk. They may not be checked out, but photocopiers are available on the Lower Level of the library.
American Dictionary of Criminal Justice: Key Terms and Major Court Cases
REF HV7411 .C53 2001
American Jurisprudence
REF KF154 .A42 Index (See Index volumes: "Grand Jury")
Columbia Companion to British History
REF DA34 .H64 1997 (See "Jury")
Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court 2 vols.
Revised edition of Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court
REF KF8742 .W567 1997
Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 4 vols.
REF HV6017 .E52 2002 (also available online)
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution 6 vols.
REF KF4548 .E53 2000
Encyclopedia of the American Judicial System:
Studies of the Principal Institutions and Process of Law 3 vols.
REF KF154.E53 1987
Federal Grand Jury Practice
REF KF9642 .B73 1996, plus 2006 supplement
The bible of American grand jury references!
New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated 6 vols.
REF KFN1231 .N4 (See Grand Jury sections 600:1 to 600:5)
Please consult the bibliography: Suggested Readings, which has been prepared by Professor Hammond, with some assistance from the reference staff. It points to some excellent readings on the Grand Jury. Notice that the listings represent both books and journal articles. They also include notes concerning availability (Geisel Library, Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord or Interlibrary Loan).
For additional books on the subject, please consult the catalog.
Use subject headings such as:
Grand jury
Law England
Church and State England History
Common Law Great Britain History
Common Law United States History
Criminal Procedure Great Britain
Courts Great Britain
A database called WorldCat will give you access to even more book materials. In fact, it comprises all the books cataloged by all the libraries in all the world! Borrowing materials via Interlibrary Loan is a very easy process when using WorldCat. Ask for assistance at the Reference desk if needed.
The following indexes and databases will enable you to access additional journal readings on various aspects of the grand jury system.
Use key phrases such as:
grand jury and histor*
grand jury and influence* and war*
grand jury and (alternative* or reform)
grand jury and (ethic* or moral*)
grand jury and abolition
Please note: an asterisk (*) is a commonly used symbol in most databases. Used at the end of a word stem, it provides for all variants on the word stem. (e.g. ethic* retrieves ethic, ethics, ethical).
Academic Search Premier
A good place to start for general readings. Many are full text.
America: History and Life
For articles pertaining to American history.
Criminal Justice Abstracts
Articles concerning grand jury matters pertaining to the criminal justice system are included in this database. For other articles of this nature, see NCJRS Abstracts as noted below. User Guide
Historical Abstracts
For articles pertaining to European history.
NCJRS Abstracts
Contains over 280 articles having the subject heading Grand Jury or Grand Juries. Topics concern issues such as reform, secrecy, selection, etc.
NCJRS Virtual Library
Find links to more than 1,200 full-text criminal justice publications provided by the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Use a keyword search or browse the topical index. Also, search the Questions & Answers section to access hundreds of answers related to juvenile and criminal justice, victim assistance, and drug policy.
SocINDEX
60 scholarly articles on grand jury subjects, ranging from the Patriot Act to discrimination and social control issues, reside in this database.
Westlaw Campus
Last alphabetically but not least! Use this full-text database for substantive readings from law reviews. Many of the readings in the bibliography listed above are accessible here.
These Westlaw user guides may assist you in searching this database:
Finding Law Review Articles Using Full-Text Online Databases (University of Albany)
and
Westlaw + Lexis-Nexis: Quick Guide (Brandeis University)
For help with the Westlaw database, call 1-800-WESTLAW (1-800-937-8529).
Searching the World Wide Web can yield a vast amount of information, but in terms of quality and reliability, your results may be uneven at best. The ease and speed with which individuals can publish information on the web, regardless of accuracy or quality, makes it imperative that when doing research on the web you know how to evaluate the information you find.
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Frequently Asked Questions About the Grand Jury System (American Bar Association)
This is the American Bar Association's FAQ on grand juries.
Constitutional Rights and the Grand Jury
This is the Hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution (July 27, 2000).
Federal Grand Jury
Created by Susan Brenner, co-author of Federal Grand Jury Practice (the 'bible' of grand jury reference books).
English Law Research Guides
From Duke University School of Law, an introduction to Modern English law.
Please consult the following guides for help in requesting an interlibrary loan. Or, ask for help at the Reference Desk.
Making an ILL (Interlibrary Loan) Request
ILL: Frequently Asked Questions
Introduction to basic legal citation
By Peter W. Martin at Cornell.
Your professor requests that you adhere to the document above for citing sources for your paper. It is based on the more detailed Bluebook: a uniform system of citation (Ready Ref KF 245 .B4).
Of particular note, please read this excerpt:
"So long as you are able to furnish all the citation information called for by § 2-200, there is no need to indicate whether you relied on any one of numerous online sources or a CD-ROM instead of one of the several print editions for the text of a U.S. Supreme Court decision. Similarly, your citations to provisions of the U.S. Code or a comparable compilation of state statutes need not indicate whether you accessed them in print or from an electronic source, nor need you indicate that you accessed an article in a widely distributed law journal on LexisNexis, Westlaw or some other Internet site."
(Professor's note: The excerpt above applies to all legal documents, not just statutes. i.e. you must include the citation,
but do not note Westlaw, FindLaw, etc. in your bibliographies.)
Ask a Librarian
The Library Liaison contact for this course is Nancy "Sam" Urtz.
